I find it rather funny that Jeepers automatically figure that everyone would WANT to do that in the first place.
I'd rather have my rice burner (and the skill to use it; most important part. Nor just be the retard at the stoplights) on solid pavement or loose gravel any day over dragging myself through a mudpit.
I went to the MacNeil Rally School in NH back in 96. Never lost the skills and having them now matters not if I'm off road in my 95 Grand Cherokee or in the wife's Sable or my Milan. It's also the reason I want a Mustang GT next year and the wife is cringing at the thought, although my 7 year old son has vetoed her. My 83 CJ7 would take most cars off the light and maxed at 70mph. It had front and rear Detroit Lockers with 4.27 gears, was lifted with 33" BFGoodrich Mud Terrains and a 1972 304. I traded it for my 95 ZJ and miss it every day.
Unfortunately, most people associate "jeepers" as "a bunch of rednecks who tear through the trails while throwing beer cans out of the window." It's a shame that it is true, as I've heard it too many times to count and represents the 1% of the wheeling Community that is despised by the majority of us.
I've never been a fan of AWD. It's either 2wd or 4wd, no in-betweens with me. I'm the one passing people on snowy roads, while they're doing grossly exaggerated slow speeds. I know my abilities and limitations, what to do, what not to do, etc. Obviously, as I get older and the skills deteriorate, so will this.
